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How to sign: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
"the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago";
Similiar / Same: alteration, modification
Categories: happening, natural event, occurrence
Within this category: avulsion, birth, conversion, damage, death, decrease, deformation, destabilization, development, easing, increase, loss of consciousness, mutation, mutation, revolution, separation, sex change, shimmer, sublimation, surprise, transformation, transition, transmutation, twinkle, vagary, variation
How to sign: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue";
Similiar / Same: alter, modify
Within this category: acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, activate, activate, activate, adjust, affect, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, Americanize, anglicize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, automatize, awaken, barb, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, bring, brutalize, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, coarsen, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, complicate, condense, confuse, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, convert, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denaturalize, denature, denature, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, dissolve, dissonate, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dull, dynamize, dynamize, ease up, edit, edit, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, etiolate, Europeanize, Europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, excite, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, flatten, flocculate, form, freeze, Frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, invert, iodinate, ionate, Islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lift, liquefy, loosen, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, make, make, make possible, mark, masculinize, masculinize, mechanize, mechanize, militarize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, nationalize, naturalize, naturalize, Nazify, neutralize, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, rarefy, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sensitize, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transform, transform, transform, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen